Call for Proposals: Society for Thomistic Personalism

Call for Proposals on Dr. Sister Prudence Allen's "Concept of Women: A Synthesis in One Volume."

In this synthesis, Allen argues, first, that intellectual history shows how the truth about sex and gender slowly unfolded among the children of Athens; second, that integral gender complementarity is not only the culmination of that process but is also the confirmation of Thomistic hylomorphism and John Paul II’s anthropology, and, third that integral gender complementarity satisfies John Henry Newman's criteria for the development of truth. The plethora of philosophical and theological insights embedded in this threefold argument are worthy of consideration in any age, but especially in this age of gender confusion.

This CFP is issued by the Society for Thomistic Personalism (est. 2007).

June 11, 2025 is the deadline for submitting a one paragraph proposal to R. Mary Hayden Lemmons, Ph.D. at rmlemmons@stthomas.edu.

Presentations should be about 20 minutes in order to allow ten minutes for Q&A. The Society for Thomistic Personalism will be meeting as a satellite session of the American Philosophical Association’s conference on 2025 October 30-Nov 2 at the University of Notre Dame.